He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Power is competence.

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

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

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

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I’m no genius.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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.