I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Some day I shall be President.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Passions are the gales of life.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

It is natural to want to have a future.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.