Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

I do believe in self-help.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Life loves the liver of it.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

I can do whatever I want.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I always make my dreams into goals.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

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.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.