He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

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

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Knowledge is power.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.