I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

An unused life is an early death.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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.

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

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.