I’m a can-do girl.

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

Woman was God’s second mistake.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Of course, I do everything for money.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Find people who will make you better.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

What we think, we become.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.