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.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

It is right to give every man his due.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.