As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

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

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Good luck has its storms.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

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

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

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I’ve been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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