We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

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.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

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.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

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

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Losing is tough.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.