Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

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.

You fail only if you stop writing.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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.

To lead people walk behind them.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

Big results require big ambitions.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.