As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

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.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

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

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.