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

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Before all else, be armed.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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.

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

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I focus on my own job.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Think and grow rich.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?