Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Justice is truth in action.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I think that success is having fun.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

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

Our work is never over.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

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

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.