I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

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

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

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.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

This lady is not for turning.

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

I only act from my heart.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I think that I’m perfect.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

I came, I saw, I conquered.