Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

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.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.