The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I always have to be writing.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

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.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I dwell in possibility.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

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

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.