Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

I’m ugly.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

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

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

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

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.