To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

My success rate speaks for itself.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Big results require big ambitions.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

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

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

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.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

We fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

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

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

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

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.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.