A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Irrevocable commitments that offer loopholes, not bail-out provisions, and no parachute clauses will extract incredible productivity and performance.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.