If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

America is another name for opportunity.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

I want people to draw strength from me.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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.

Never, never, never give up.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Choose people who lift you up.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

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

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Money’s important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don’t have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

I can do whatever I want.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.