If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Never, never, never give up.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

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?

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Success is not a stop sign.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It’s important for me to let my fans know I really don’t care. I’m confident.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

An unused life is an early death.

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.

All great achievements require time.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.