Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

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

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

We all have done something unethical.

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

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

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

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.