Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Africa is on the rise.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I can be a cruel person.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.