When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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

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

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Only you can control your future.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

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

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

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

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

People want to feel hopeful.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

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.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.