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A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Sep 24, 2025
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Work hard at work worth doing.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
The harder I work the more I live.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
Build what you want to see in the world.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Well done is better than well said.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.