Be not simply good – be good for something.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

He who is brave is free.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

I defy gravity.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I do believe in self-help.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

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.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.