All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I was an overnight sensation.

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.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

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

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

The doer alone learneth.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

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

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

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.

Nothing will work unless you do.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

The art is long, life is short.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

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.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.