Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

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

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

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

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

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

I don’t intend to stop making music.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!