Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I dwell in possibility.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

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.

Pessimism never won any battle.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

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

Before all else, be armed.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

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.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.