Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

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

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

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.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

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

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

See, winners embrace hard work.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.