No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I will not be triumphed over.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

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?‘

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

When 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.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.