Desire is the very essence of man.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I want people to draw strength from me.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

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

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

To be is to do.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

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

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

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.