We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Passions are the gales of life.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

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

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

The only way round is through.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

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

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

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

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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