I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I’m a can-do girl.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

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

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

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

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Action expresses priorities.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

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

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Success is not a stop sign.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.