I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

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.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The only way round is through.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

My life is a struggle.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

You either make dust or eat dust.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.