No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
Mr. TCompetition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.
Ariana GrandeIf you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad AliI’m bad at picking heroes.
Margaret AtwoodNo person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
Andrew CarnegieA man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert HubbardFame hit me like a ton of bricks.
EminemThere are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
Cristiano RonaldoPhysical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.
Paulo CoelhoYou can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
LeBron JamesIf you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin PowellIt is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of ArcThe great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert SchweitzerThere is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
Maya AngelouFor unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore RooseveltIf you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.
Robert KiyosakiAs much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.
J. ColeYou aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.
Lou HoltzA man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel JohnsonI feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.
Kevin HartGold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher ColumbusMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale CarnegieI would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
Kanye WestA dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin PowellWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerOnce you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
ChanakyaOur Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.
Russell M. NelsonExcellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. WashingtonPut it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.
DJ KhaledAll successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian TracyIn any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.
Robert GreeneIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.
Jimmy CarterWhen you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
J. Robert OppenheimerIn the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou HoltzThe successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale CarnegieWhen you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. EisenhowerNo one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou HoltzA 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?
Richard BransonAmbition should be made of sterner stuff.
William ShakespeareIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David ThoreauIn T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.
Virat KohliWhat one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEverything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von ClausewitzOld age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore RooseveltI remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.
David ByrneWe were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret ThatcherWealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry FordI think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray BradburyNo one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian TracyAim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.
Bill ShanklyWe 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.
Michelle ObamaA 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.
Jim RohnFootball is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.
Sunil ChhetriEnthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert HubbardThere’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Maya Angelou