If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.