What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

I always have to be writing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

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

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Don’t ever play yourself.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?