I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

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.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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 one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

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 do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

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.

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.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

I never talk about my next project.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I’m no genius.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.