Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

People want to feel hopeful.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

People want you to fail.

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

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

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

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.