There is no substitute for victory.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Never confuse motion with action.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.