I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

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.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

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.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

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.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

Genius is patience.

It’s really annoying for me. That’s not what I’m playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron’s throne or whatever.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

What you are comes to you.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.