The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

What one has to do usually can be done.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.