Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

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

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

What is easy is seldom excellent.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Genius is patience.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Action expresses priorities.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

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.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

People want to feel hopeful.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I dwell in possibility.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Dream and you shall become.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.