I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I will not be triumphed over.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

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.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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.

You fail only if you stop writing.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Never complain. Never explain.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

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.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.