On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

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.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

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.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

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

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

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.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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.

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.

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally – but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.