Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

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.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

No sane man will dance.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

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

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

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

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Man, all lives matter.

What keeps me going is goals.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.