Dale Carnegie Quotes

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I am constantly hungry for growth and that's what drives me. Success or failure of a project doesn't drive me.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I'm full of this sense of challenge. I'm always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I come from zero and I've had to push myself up to where I am today. I'm not going to give up and I'm going to keep pushing.

I want to prove to myself and everybody else how good I can be, and I'm willing to work as hard as I need to to achieve that goal.

God helps those who help themselves. You have blessings. You have gifts. You have passion. You have drive. Get after it; go in there and do something. Try and make every day count.

I'm going to make my own heaven. I'm going to struggle for it. I'm going to fight to earn everything I dream about.

You have to define growth to yourself. If you ask yourself what you want, and if the answers are big, then you have to work towards it.

Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it.

... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

I'm just a regular guy that had a dream and ran for it.