Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

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.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

I was an overnight sensation.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

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

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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!

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.