When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

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

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I’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.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.