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

Only you can control your future.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

My drive is other people’s success.

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

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

The best way out is always through.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Pessimism never won any battle.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.