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

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

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Applause waits on success.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

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

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

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.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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.

Revolutions go not backward.