The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Hope is a waking dream.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

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.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.