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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

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.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.