Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I’m a can-do girl.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

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.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Dream and you shall become.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You can be passionate about anything.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Never mistake motion for action.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Let the path be open to talent.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.