The time is always right to do what is right.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

If I can be a leader, I will.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

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

Justice is truth in action.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

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.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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.

I want people to draw strength from me.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Pessimism never won any battle.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

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.

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

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.