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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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 person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

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.

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.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

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.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

People want you to fail.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.