Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

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?

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

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

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

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.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Act, and God will act.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

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

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

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.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

We are what we believe we are.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

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

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I just want to do well with the national team.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

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

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.