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.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Always do whatever’s next.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

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.

You are victors, not victims!

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Losing is tough.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I am results-oriented.

I can do whatever I want.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.