Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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.

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

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Life begins on the other side of despair.