Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

My drive is other people’s success.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

To make headway, improve your head.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

If you deserve it, go get it.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.