I came, I saw, I conquered.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Desire is the essence of a man.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Hope is a waking dream.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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. That is what we do.

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.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

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

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

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.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

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

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

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

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.