Samuel Beckett

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

I’m wary of what goal I set, because then I’ll have to accomplish it.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Now’s the best time you’ll ever have in life to get ahead!

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

Be yourself. No one else can be you.

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.