Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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 don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Better is the enemy of good.

One man with courage is a majority.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.