By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.

It is always your next move.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

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.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

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

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I always make my dreams into goals.

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.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.