Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

The need is the necessary want.

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams." (Harry Braxton)

That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.

Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.