One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

We are wiser than we know.

Change alone is unchanging.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Dream and you shall become.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I worked my face off.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

All great achievements require time.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

No great thing is created suddenly.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.