The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

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.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Never complain and never explain.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

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

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

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.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Nothing will work unless you do.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

Competition is a sin.

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.