No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

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

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

For 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.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

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

Without failure there is no achievement.

Applause waits on success.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.