It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

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

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

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

He who is brave is free.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

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

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

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

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

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

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

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

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.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.