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

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

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.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

All great achievements require time.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.