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

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I can do whatever I want.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

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

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Only you can control your future.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.

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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I defy gravity.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.