The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

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.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

To create something you must be something.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.