Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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.

Success has always been a great liar.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Only the insecure strive for security.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.