No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

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.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

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

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Our work is never over.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.