Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Nobody’s indispensable.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

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.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

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.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

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

Success is not a stop sign.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.