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.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Small aim is a crime.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I’m about being the best.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

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.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Of course awards matter.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Well begun is half done.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.