You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Aim for the highest.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Competition is a sin.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.