The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

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

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Mine is better than ours.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I teach children to be winners.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.