The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I am just one human being.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.