You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

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

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

I dwell in possibility.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

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

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

I have goals.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.