Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

I focus on one thing and one thing only – that’s trying to win as many championships as I can.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Never, never, never give up.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

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.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Aim for the highest.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.