Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

People want you to fail.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

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.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

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

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I want people to draw strength from me.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

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.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.