My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I teach children to be winners.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Faith never makes a confession.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.