He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Never mistake motion for action.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Music is really driving my whole life.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I dwell in possibility.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I’m filthy rich!

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.