After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Never, never, never give up.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Never confuse motion with action.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.