If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

The doer alone learneth.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

Big results require big ambitions.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

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.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.