Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

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

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

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

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

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.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

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.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

An unused life is an early death.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I’m committed to the fight game.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

My life is a struggle.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

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

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

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.