My rule is to break one sweat a day.

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.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

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.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

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

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I always make my dreams into goals.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

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

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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‘.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I didn’t want to lift weights and get all big; I just wanted to get cut.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

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

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.