Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Hope is a waking dream.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!