Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

Courage is grace under pressure.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.