People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

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

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.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

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.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Think and grow rich.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.