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

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Man is not made for defeat.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Of course, I do everything for money.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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.‘

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

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

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.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

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

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I’m filthy rich!

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.