Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

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.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

I always make my dreams into goals.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.