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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

What one has to do usually can be done.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

It is natural to want to have a future.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

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.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

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

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Aim for the highest.

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

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.