I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Only the shallow know themselves.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Competition is a sin.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

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

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

He who angers you conquers you.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

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

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.