Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Well, 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.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That’s why now, even when I get tired, I think, ‚This is what I asked for.‘

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

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.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.