I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Some guys look better as they get older.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.