It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

What is once well done is done forever.

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 was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

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.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Success is not a stop sign.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Study men, not historians.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

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.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.