Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

I like pushing boundaries.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

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.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

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

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.