No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

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.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

See, winners embrace hard work.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.