Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

My drive is other people’s success.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

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

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

No great thing is created suddenly.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

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

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

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.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.