The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I do believe in self-help.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.