Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

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

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I’m not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

Too much TV hurts movies.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.