He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

I’m not a bad person.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

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.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Success has always been a great liar.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

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

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

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

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I only want my work to make people happy.