Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

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

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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

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

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

The best way out is always through.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

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

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I will not be triumphed over.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

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.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.