You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Success is not a stop sign.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

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

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Forget the past.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

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

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.