If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

What is true belongs to me!

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

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.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

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.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

What is once well done is done forever.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

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

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Applause waits on success.

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

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

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 we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

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.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.