Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

What one has to do usually can be done.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

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

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

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

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

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

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.