Big results require big ambitions.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

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

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.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

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

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

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.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

By indignities men come to dignities.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.