Success has always been a great liar.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

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.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

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.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.