The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

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

Our work is never over.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

To create something you must be something.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

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.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Americans never quit.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.