I think you’re working and learning until you die.

I’m selfish.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

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.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

Power is competence.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Dream and you shall become.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

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.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

They know enough who know how to learn.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.