When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

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

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.