Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

I will not be triumphed over.

What we think, we become.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

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.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Of course awards matter.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

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.

Begin with the end in mind.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Act, and God will act.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Never regret what you don’t write.