Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Boldness be my friend.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

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

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Think and grow rich.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Act, and God will act.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

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

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.