Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

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

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

No pressure, no diamonds.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

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

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

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

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Big results require big ambitions.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

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.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.