I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

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

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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

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.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

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

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

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.‘

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

I dwell in possibility.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.