I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Success has always been a great liar.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

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

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

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.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

To lead people walk behind them.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.