The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

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.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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

I do believe in self-help.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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.