Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

It is natural to want to have a future.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

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.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Action expresses priorities.

Aim for the highest.

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.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

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.