People want you to fail.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

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.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I defy gravity.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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.

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

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

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.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.