The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

All great achievements require time.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I’m filthy rich!

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Applause waits on success.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

It is natural to want to have a future.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.