You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

People want you to fail.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

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.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

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

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Be as you wish to seem.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

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

Success is not a stop sign.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Power is competence.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Our work is never over.