Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

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

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Art is the proper task of life.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

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

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Success is not a stop sign.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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