He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I never thought about what people would say about me. 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.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

What is once well done is done forever.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

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.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

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

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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.