What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

God’s desire is that we excel.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Applause waits on success.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

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

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

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

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

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.