If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

I miss my singing career very much.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Never complain and never explain.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.