Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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!

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

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.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.