In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

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

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.