Dream in a pragmatic way.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Some day I shall be President.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

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.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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.

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

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Begin with the end in mind.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Truth is what works.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don’t believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can’t possibly foresee now.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.