Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Enemies are so stimulating.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

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

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Our work is never over.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.