Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

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

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

You can’t go backward in life.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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.

You are victors, not victims!

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.