I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

I’m chasing perfection.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

We are what we believe we are.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Pessimism never won any battle.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

To lead people walk behind them.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.