A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

I have goals.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

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.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

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

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Applause waits on success.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.