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

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

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

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

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.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

We work to become, not to acquire.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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

I want to put a ding in the universe.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.