Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Of course, I do everything for money.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

This lady is not for turning.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.