Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Bring them on.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

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

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

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

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

I have goals.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Whatever good things we build end up building us.