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.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

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.

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

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I’m about being the best.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Small aim is a crime.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

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.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

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

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.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.