To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Aim for the highest.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Nothing will work unless you do.

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

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

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

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.