The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

No pressure, no diamonds.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

By indignities men come to dignities.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.