If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

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

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.