He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Humble people ask for help.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

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

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

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

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.