I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Forget the past.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Of course awards matter.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Libraries raised me.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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.

Little things affect little minds.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.