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

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

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.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

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.

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

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

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

People want you to fail.

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

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.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.