When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

God does not play dice.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The best way out is always through.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

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

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Never, never, never give up.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

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

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.