If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

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

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

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.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

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

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

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.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Success has always been a great liar.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.