If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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.

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

My drive is other people’s success.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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.

I love women with attitude.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I am results-oriented.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.