Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

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

Before all else, be armed.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

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

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

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

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

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

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.