Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I’m a can-do girl.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Big results require big ambitions.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.