The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Act, and God will act.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Never complain. Never explain.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

People want to feel hopeful.

A word after a word after a word is power.

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

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.