Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

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.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

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

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Well done is better than well said.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What keeps me going is goals.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Success is not a stop sign.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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.

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

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

The object of the superior man is truth.

What is once well done is done forever.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.