One man cannot practice many arts with success.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Man is by nature a political animal.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I just want to do well with the national team.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

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?

America is another name for opportunity.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

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!

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.