Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

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.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

All of our problems start in our minds.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

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.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

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

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Aim for the highest.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Man is not made for defeat.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.