I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

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.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

At one point he decided enough was enough.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

It is always your next move.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.