Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

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

My message is that God is a good God.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

See, winners embrace hard work.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

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

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.