Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Find people who will make you better.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

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.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

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.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.