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.

The object of the superior man is truth.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I am results-oriented.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

We work to become, not to acquire.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

I do not pilfer victory.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, ‚Yes,‘ you know he is a crook.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

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

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Change alone is unchanging.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.