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

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

My future is righteousness.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

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

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

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.

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.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.