If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

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 want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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

Every noble work is at first impossible.

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

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.