With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

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.

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

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

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

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Never, never, never give up.

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

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Success is the child of audacity.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

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

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.