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

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

There is no substitute for victory.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Success has always been a great liar.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

To lead people walk behind them.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.