I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it’s resourcefulness.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.

I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you

Anybody that's in my weight class, above me or beneath me, I keep an eye on.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

I like to talk come fight night, that's how I do it, but I'm not a pushover.

One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them.

The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

You can never meet everyone's expectations. It's hard enough to meet your own.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

All boxing experts told Helenius is the next world champion! Chisora beat him.

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