Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

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.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

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

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.