Big results require big ambitions.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

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

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

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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!‘

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

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

People want to feel hopeful.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

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

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

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

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.