Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

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

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.