If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.
You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
The best way out is always through.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.
If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
Impossible is just an opinion.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
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