One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

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!

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

I’m afraid to fail again.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

You have to be someone.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

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

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

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.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I dwell in possibility.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.