Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

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

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Success is the child of audacity.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

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.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

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

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

No pressure, no diamonds.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.