Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

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.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

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.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Life is precious.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I love life because what more is there?

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.