If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

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.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Aim for the highest.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

I just want to do well with the national team.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

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

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.