The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
Brian EnoIt take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
Bob MarleyThink twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon HillI can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.
George H. W. BushThe good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores HuertaThere is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.
Dan QuayleI don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.
Kevin HartIn the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William JamesHow you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou HoltzI nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.
Richard BransonI wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Maya AngelouDream and you shall become.
Wayne DyerIn reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. TrumanI think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.
Bad BunnyI have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.
Abby Lee MillerIt’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
Jeff BezosIf I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon BonaparteTake a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale CarnegieDon’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim RohnThe men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew CarnegieI feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.
DJ KhaledIf you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Lou HoltzYou have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
John LennonIf you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor SwiftWhatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
Maya AngelouIf you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.
Kobe BryantI’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. ColeCheck your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Dwayne JohnsonAbove everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.
Dolly PartonCourage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
Maya AngelouRemembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.
David GogginsThose who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco ChanelThere are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.
Jocko WillinkI’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.
Dolly PartonWhat really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
Mark ZuckerbergYou know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
Bill GatesOpera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
Terry PratchettYou know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.
Dolly PartonI had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.
Robert GreeneIf someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.
Taylor SwiftI wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.
Paulo CoelhoI’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.
Conor McGregorI’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.
Kevin HartI’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
Robert KiyosakiThere 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.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
Anthony BourdainThe desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘
Matthew McConaugheyInnovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
Steve JobsDrink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
George BestMr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.
Mr. TObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry FordTo act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
James BaldwinThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. SeussIf I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.
Babe Ruth