With self-discipline most anything is possible.

People want you to fail.

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.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

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

Energy begets energy.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

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.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

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

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

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

Applause waits on success.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.