A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Exercise is labor without weariness.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

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

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, 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.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.