Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Every once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

Passions are the gales of life.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Aim for the highest.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

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.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.