When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

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

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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 heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You can be passionate about anything.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.