When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Only you can control your future.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

The only shame is to have none.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

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.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Bring them on.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

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.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Choose people who lift you up.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

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

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.