I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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%.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I am results-oriented.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

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.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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.

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

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I like to work.

One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.