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

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

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.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Big results require big ambitions.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

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

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.