I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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

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

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Life loves the liver of it.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Act, and God will act.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

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

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.