It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

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

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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%.

Bring them on.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Let the path be open to talent.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

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

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

America is another name for opportunity.