I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

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.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Sleep is the best meditation.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.