If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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.

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

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

I think that success is having fun.

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

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I worked my face off.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.