True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Great tests precede great blessings.

You have 50,000 thoughts a day you might as well make them big ones.

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.