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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Pessimism never won any battle.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

The best way out is always through.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.