The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Genius, when young, is divine.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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.

Fight with a happy heart.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Americans never quit.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.