If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

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

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

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

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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.

I am results-oriented.