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.
J. ColeMy success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.
Kevin HartWhat keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad AliI declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Queen Elizabeth IIWe are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
BuddhaIn order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
Lady GagaMy family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘
Robert KiyosakiYou always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
Clint EastwoodThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxReligion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
VoltaireIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel KantHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert SchweitzerI always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
J. ColeI can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
Taylor SwiftWhy should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest HemingwayCheck your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Dwayne JohnsonMy life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
Anthony HopkinsWe never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-PowellYou can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
Ray BradburyI’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.
Joel OsteenWell, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.
Lady GagaThe most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore RooseveltTo the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
J. Robert OppenheimerThere is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the GreatI just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.
Kanye WestIt is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
John D. RockefellerI don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.
Kevin HartLife, if well lived, is long enough.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth IIWe don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William JamesIf you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
John C. MaxwellThat man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauIn inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill GatesKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeHe is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
EpictetusInstead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
ConfuciusIt is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
Thomas SowellGoodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David ThoreauOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinFailure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerDon’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
Bob DylanTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerDo the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao TzuMoney has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
Bill GatesThe people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard ShawI just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.
Conor McGregorHappiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon HillYou make more money if you’re generous.
Robert KiyosakiWealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the GreatHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da VinciI don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIt doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Brian TracyIf you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya AngelouIf you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
John C. MaxwellTo be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.
Jurgen KloppLife is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson