I always make my dreams into goals.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.