Let the path be open to talent.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you’re talking about addressing the foundation of what’s going on with our people when we don’t have any financial power. Our basic needs aren’t being met in a lot of cases, so there’s no way we’re going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Every wall is a door.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

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.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.