I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

All great achievements require time.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

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

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.