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

Find people who will make you better.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it’s really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don’t see a viable competitor.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

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

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The only way round is through.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

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

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I think that success is having fun.

It sure is hell to be president.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

Big results require big ambitions.

I worked my face off.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Affluence means influence.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.