Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Never, never, never give up.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

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

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Genius is patience.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

People want to feel hopeful.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Success is not a stop sign.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

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

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

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

I want people to draw strength from me.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

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.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

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.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

God helps those who help themselves.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?