All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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.

Choose people who lift you up.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

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

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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

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

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Losing is tough.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

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.

One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

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.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Character is destiny.

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

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.