My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

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.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

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

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Success has always been a great liar.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!