There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

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

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Genius is patience.

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.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.