Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Opportunity makes a thief.

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

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

You have to be someone.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

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.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I always have to be writing.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

I’m a can-do girl.

Americans never quit.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.