Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

God’s desire is that we excel.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Hope is a waking dream.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.