Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

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

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

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

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.