There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

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

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Well begun is half done.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Every wall is a door.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Success is not a stop sign.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.