I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

What is once well done is done forever.

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

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I just want to do well with the national team.