Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

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

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

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

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

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Bring them on.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

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

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

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.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.