The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

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.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

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

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

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.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.