There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

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

Losing is tough.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I dwell in possibility.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

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.

People want you to fail.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

We work to become, not to acquire.

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

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Applause waits on success.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Music is really driving my whole life.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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