Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

God helps those who help themselves.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Choose people who lift you up.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Men want to make women happy.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.