No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I will never retire unless I have to.