Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

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

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

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.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

No driver is perfect.

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

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I don’t regard myself as a cracking good climber. I’m just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I’m good on ice.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.