‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

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

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

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

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I just want to do well with the national team.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

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

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Nothing will work unless you do.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

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.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.