A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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.‘

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

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

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

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