Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

You have to be someone.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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

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

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

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.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

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

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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!

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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.

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.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.