He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Affluence means influence.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

I am such a political person.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I teach children to be winners.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

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

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

It is always your next move.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.