I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

What keeps me going is goals.

I will never retire unless I have to.

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

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Little things affect little minds.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I’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.‘

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

You can’t go backward in life.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Small aim is a crime.