Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

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

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I don’t have many sad days.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

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.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

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

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

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

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.