Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

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.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Never confuse motion with action.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

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

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Thought is the parent of the deed.