As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

What keeps me going is goals.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

All great achievements require time.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

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

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

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