Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

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 might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.