I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

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

Think and grow rich.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Bring them on.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

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.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.