Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

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

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

What is once well done is done forever.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.