Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

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.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

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

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Choose people who lift you up.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

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

Some day I shall be President.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.