Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

This is not a bad life.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

I need physics more than friends.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Life is a song to me.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

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.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Of course awards matter.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Life is our dictionary.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Life is warfare.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.