The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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

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

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

You fail only if you stop writing.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.