And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

Dream and you shall become.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

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

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.