Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Never complain and never explain.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

My drive is other people’s success.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

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

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

To lead people walk behind them.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Giving up cannot be an option.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.