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

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

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

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Compliment three people every day.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.