Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

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.

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

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

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

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Action expresses priorities.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

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.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.