I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I think that success is having fun.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Never confuse motion with action.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Think and grow rich.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.