Echoes

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you'll be able to use them better when you're older.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

I had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had done before, but as far as it was possible for man to go.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I will either find a way or make one.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

Relentless toil conquers all.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.