Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

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.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

You can be passionate about anything.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I like to work and am a focused person.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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?

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

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

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

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

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.