But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I just want to do well with the national team.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

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.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

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

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

The only way round is through.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.