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.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I think we need more idiot control.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I will never retire unless I have to.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

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.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

One must steer, not talk.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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