The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

The best way out is always through.

Man is not made for defeat.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

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.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You are victors, not victims!

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.