One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

I can handle pain.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I’m about being the best.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I’m afraid to fail again.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I can do whatever I want.

Character is destiny.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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.