My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

America doesn’t have health insurance.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

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.

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

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

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?‘

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

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.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

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

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. That is what we do.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.