The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

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

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

What is once well done is done forever.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Energy begets energy.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.