I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

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.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

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.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I always have to be writing.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

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

I like pushing boundaries.