I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

That’s what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

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

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

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.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

My life is a struggle.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.