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

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

My success rate speaks for itself.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Big results require big ambitions.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.