Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Of course, I do everything for money.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

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

The root of this possibility of doing good – that we all have – is in creation.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.