Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

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

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

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.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Aim for the highest.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

People want to feel hopeful.

My success rate speaks for itself.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I’m chasing perfection.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

No pressure, no diamonds.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

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.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

America is another name for opportunity.

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

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.