Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I do believe in self-help.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Competition is a sin.

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.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

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

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

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.

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

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I will not be triumphed over.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

My drive is other people’s success.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.