You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Let the path be open to talent.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

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.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

What keeps me going is goals.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Our work is never over.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.