How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Big results require big ambitions.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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 greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

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.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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

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.

Never, never, never give up.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.