No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Success has always been a great liar.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

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.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Dream and you shall become.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

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

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

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I am results-oriented.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

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

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

We 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.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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?‘

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.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.