I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

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

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

People want to feel hopeful.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

You have to be someone.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

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

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

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

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.