A goal is a dream with a deadline.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

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.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

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

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

The only shame is to have none.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

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

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.