All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Think and grow rich.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

People want you to fail.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

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.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Our best thoughts come from others.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

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.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

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.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

I didn’t tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn’t happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The way to know life is to love many things.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.