My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

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

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

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

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

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.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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 was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.