If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

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.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Without failure there is no achievement.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

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

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Africa will thrive.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.