I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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

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

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

My drive is other people’s success.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

I create stars.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

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

See, winners embrace hard work.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.