All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

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

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.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Life loves the liver of it.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Genius is patience.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Pessimism never won any battle.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.