If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.
Joyce MeyerWhen I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘
Frank OceanFor me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.
Stephen CurryMy drive is other people’s success.
Kevin HartDesire is the very essence of man.
Baruch SpinozaI would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.
Jane GoodallOpportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Marcus AureliusThere’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.
RihannaGoals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian TracyI knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.
Conor McGregorWhatever you do, do with all your might.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.
Richard BransonI don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘
Tom BradyWe always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill GatesI still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
J. ColeBefore you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.
David GogginsEvery person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
Napoleon HillNever was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo MachiavelliSuccess consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.
Stephen CurryInspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
Bob DylanThe bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamLet each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas CarlyleStart wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerGreat men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David ThoreauI tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.
Bad BunnyMy ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor SwiftWe must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe harder I work, the luckier I become.
Terry PratchettBasically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.
DJ KhaledWould I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon RamsayWhen a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo CoelhoThe best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthurSuccess is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Jim RohnWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeI’m filthy rich!
Adam SandlerThe highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John RuskinCompetitions are a business, first and foremost.
Abby Lee MillerYou must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
Robert GreeneYou gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
DJ KhaledI’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘
Dwayne JohnsonBe brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo CoelhoDiscipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim RohnNothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas CarlyleOur greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWinning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.
Ayrton SennaWell, 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.
Lady GagaFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace ThackerayHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinThere have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
Elon MuskI have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee WilliamsSuccessful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald ReaganThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltMusic is really driving my whole life.
Ariana GrandeYou 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.
Clint EastwoodSuccess does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard ShawEven the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.
Sunil ChhetriBy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka