Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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.

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

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Let the path be open to talent.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

You are victors, not victims!

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If I can be a leader, I will.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.