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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Never complain. Never explain.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

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.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

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

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Only you can control your future.