Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

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

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

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

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.