Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

What is once well done is done forever.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

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.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

My drive is other people’s success.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

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

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.