People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

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

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.

Fortune befriends the bold.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

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

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

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

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

God’s desire is that we excel.

What is once well done is done forever.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.