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

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.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Of course awards matter.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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.‘

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Big results require big ambitions.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.