We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

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

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

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