You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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.

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.

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

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

See, winners embrace hard work.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

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

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.