It is easier to stay out than get out.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

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

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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 farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.