If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

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.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

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

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

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.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

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

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

It is always your next move.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.