Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

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.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Music is really driving my whole life.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

People want to feel hopeful.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

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

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

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.

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