Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

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

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.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

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

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Success is the child of audacity.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Never regret what you don’t write.

Without failure there is no achievement.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

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

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

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

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

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

No pressure, no diamonds.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!