Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

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

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

Success is not a stop sign.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

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.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.

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.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

No great thing is created suddenly.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

My success rate speaks for itself.