You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

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.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Being humble matters.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

As you think, so shall you become.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Choose people who lift you up.