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

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

See, winners embrace hard work.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

God’s first creature, which was light.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

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.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

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

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.