We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

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.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

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.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.