Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Applause waits on success.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

We work to become, not to acquire.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.