In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It’s the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn’t that unbelievable? That’s 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

I don’t intend to stop making music.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

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

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I’m filthy rich!

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

The great music for so many artists – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones – was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

My drive is other people’s success.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.