Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

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

Without failure there is no achievement.

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

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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

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.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

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 can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Success is the child of audacity.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

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.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

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.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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.

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

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.