Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I am just one human being.

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

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

We think too much and feel too little.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.