A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

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.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

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

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

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.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

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

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I’m filthy rich!

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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.

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.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.