“Live as if you were living already for the second time.”

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won’t achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline.

While statistics are interesting, they’re all in the past.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Dreams don’t work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

You will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.