Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I want people to draw strength from me.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

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.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I’ve learned never to say never.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.