Never, never, never give up.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

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.‘

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

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

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.