I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

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.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

I’m filthy rich!

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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.‘

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

Never complain. Never explain.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Of course, I do everything for money.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They’re very similar. There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

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

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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 hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.