If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

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

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

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

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

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.