With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

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.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

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.