One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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.‘

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Success is not a stop sign.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Find people who will make you better.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.