Tom Clancy Quotes

I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me.

I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest.

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'

I'm prouder of my weight loss than my Oscar!

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

I don't really love writing. I don't love the feeling of starting a new file. But I love the feeling of overcoming and accomplishing.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did, and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.

What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.

My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.

All films that I have done, this legacy, is a like a dream come true for me.

I found a scrap book that my mom had given to me, and inside was a letter that I wrote to myself at age 19. The letter included my goals and dreams for my life, and even then, I was writing about the management company that I built today.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

I wrote 'Triumphant Heart' and it made me feel triumphant.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.