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

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

You can be passionate about anything.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

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

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

An unused life is an early death.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I’m about being the best.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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 have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.