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

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Success is not a stop sign.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

What keeps me going is goals.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

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

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

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.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

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.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

As for our majority… one is enough.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Pessimism never won any battle.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.