Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

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

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

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

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

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

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

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.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

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.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

What is once well done is done forever.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.