We work to become, not to acquire.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

What is true belongs to me!

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Learn to think continentally.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

My future is righteousness.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Passions are the gales of life.

I’m filthy rich!

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

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

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!