It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

God helps those who help themselves.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.