“No man, you gotta keep going. What am I gonna do, quit? That’s not an option. You gotta keep on keepin on. Life’s a garden, dig it and you make it work for you. You never give up man, that’s my philosophy.”
“Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
“Some men are born great, others have greatness thrust upon them. For you, this is that very moment.”
“Just remember, Fievel, one man’s sunset is another man’s dawn. I don’t know what’s out there beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“Just because I don’t show the fire burning in my eyes doesn’t mean there isn’t one scorching deep inside.”
“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.”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste.”