Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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?‘

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.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If you deserve it, go get it.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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.

I am results-oriented.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

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

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

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.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

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

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

No great thing is created suddenly.

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.