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.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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.

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

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I can do whatever I want.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.