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.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I don’t have many sad days.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

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.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

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

To make headway, improve your head.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

I think that success is having fun.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.