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.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

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.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

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?

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

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

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

It’s a very good historical book about history.

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.