No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

People want to feel hopeful.

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.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

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.‘

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Giving up cannot be an option.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Bring them on.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?