It always seems impossible until it’s done.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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.

The only shame is to have none.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Never complain and never explain.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Basically, 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.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

See, winners embrace hard work.