I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I will not be triumphed over.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

My drive is other people’s success.

I have goals.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Passions are the gales of life.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.