Fortune befriends the bold.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

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 second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

If you deserve it, go get it.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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

I always make my dreams into goals.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

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

Think and grow rich.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I was an overnight sensation.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

The best way out is always through.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I am results-oriented.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.