With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Life well spent is long.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I defy gravity.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

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.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

You either make dust or eat dust.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Success is not a stop sign.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

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

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.