Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

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.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Of course, I do everything for money.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

There is no substitute for victory.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I love food.