The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

What keeps me going is goals.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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

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 were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

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.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

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.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

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.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.