Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I worked my face off.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I am results-oriented.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

See, winners embrace hard work.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Without failure there is no achievement.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Before all else, be armed.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.