If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

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

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

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

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.