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.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

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.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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.

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

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

You have to be someone.

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

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

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

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.