Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

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.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

The only shame is to have none.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Man is not made for defeat.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I’m committed to the fight game.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.