Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

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 think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

This lady is not for turning.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

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

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

By indignities men come to dignities.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

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.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.