If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

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

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

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?

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

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

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.