Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Our work is never over.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

A word after a word after a word is power.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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!

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Only you can control your future.