I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

See, winners embrace hard work.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Success has always been a great liar.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.