When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Dream and you shall become.

Big results require big ambitions.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

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.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

How can we help President Obama?

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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

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