Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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.

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.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

I worked my face off.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

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

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

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

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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

People want to feel hopeful.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.