I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent’s house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

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.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I worked my face off.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

What keeps me going is goals.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Americans never quit.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.