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.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Never complain and never explain.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

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.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

I teach children to be winners.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.