Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

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.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

My success rate speaks for itself.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.