Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

You fail only if you stop writing.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

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.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.