When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Good luck has its storms.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Never confuse motion with action.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Success is the child of audacity.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

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

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

I’m committed to the fight game.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

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.

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

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.