It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I’m trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

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

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I always entertain great hopes.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

I give the children education.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.