The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

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.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

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

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Dream and you shall become.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

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.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.