Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

If 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.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.