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

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.