Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

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.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

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

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

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

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I think that success is having fun.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

The future is purchased by the present.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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

I’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.

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.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Small aim is a crime.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

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.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.