The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I teach children to be winners.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.