Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn’t mind it if I didn’t.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Enemies are so stimulating.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.