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

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

Nothing endures but change.

I’m not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I’m living on.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Action expresses priorities.

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

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

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 will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I’m committed to the fight game.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.