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

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

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.

Life loves the liver of it.

It’s nice when little teams win.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

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.

Fight with a happy heart.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Never regret what you don’t write.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.