You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

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.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

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 first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Man is not made for defeat.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

By indignities men come to dignities.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

The doer alone learneth.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

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