The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Never confuse motion with action.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Think and grow rich.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

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

Everybody has a purpose.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Bring them on.

God helps those who help themselves.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.