To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

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

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I give opinions, not advice.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.