Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

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.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

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

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Respect the burden.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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