People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Giving up cannot be an option.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I always have to be writing.

Never confuse motion with action.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

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

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 we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I’d like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I dwell in possibility.