There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

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.

There is no substitute for victory.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

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.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Big results require big ambitions.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.