If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The world is too violent right now.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

What is once well done is done forever.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

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

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

You are victors, not victims!

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.