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

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

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

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

What keeps me going is goals.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.