The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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

I never say I am a guru.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

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.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

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.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.‘

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Applause waits on success.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

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

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

My drive is other people’s success.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Success has always been a great liar.