Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

I believe in singing.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

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

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

An unused life is an early death.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.