Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Let the path be open to talent.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

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

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I like to work and am a focused person.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.