Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

An unused life is an early death.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

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.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

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

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I really love the culture of hip-hop.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.