Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Dream and you shall become.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

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.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

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

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.