The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Every wall is a door.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.