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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Opportunity makes a thief.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

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

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

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

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

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Simplify, simplify.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

The only shame is to have none.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

What is once well done is done forever.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.