I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I’m a can-do girl.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Joining McLaren didn’t add a lot of pressure but of course you want to make sure you can impress them.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I’m not a playwright.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.