You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

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.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I think that success is having fun.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I do believe in self-help.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I can’t act!

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

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’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

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

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I’m chasing perfection.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.