You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

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

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.