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.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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. That is what we do.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Success is not a stop sign.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

No pressure, no diamonds.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Well begun is half done.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

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

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I can handle pain.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.