The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Without failure there is no achievement.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

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

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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

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.

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

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Small aim is a crime.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

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.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!