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

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

All great achievements require time.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

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.

Life is our dictionary.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Of course awards matter.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

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.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.