Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
The dedicated life is the life worth living.
The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The man who sees both sides of an issue is very likely on the fence or up a tree.
The middle of the road is where the white line is, and that's the worst place to drive.
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.