The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

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

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Bring them on.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Character is power.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.