The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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 would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

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

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

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

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

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

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.