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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Let the path be open to talent.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

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.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.