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

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Everybody has a purpose.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Let the path be open to talent.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

From caring comes courage.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

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.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

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.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Applause waits on success.

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

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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.