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

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

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

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

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

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

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.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

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.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

No pressure, no diamonds.

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.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.