Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. 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.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

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.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.