The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Life loves the liver of it.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You are victors, not victims!

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Never confuse motion with action.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.