Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I can do whatever I want.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

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

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Never, never, never give up.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.