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.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

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

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Success is not a stop sign.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Success has always been a great liar.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.