If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

America is another name for opportunity.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

The future of American film lies on television.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.