No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

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

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Enemies are so stimulating.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

The doer alone learneth.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

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

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.