Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Before all else, be armed.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I’m committed to the fight game.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I’m chasing perfection.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.