Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

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.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

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.

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

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Nothing endures but change.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel – one that reads like a mystery to most people. They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.