The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

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.

God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

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

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.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

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.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

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.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

To make headway, improve your head.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

God’s desire is that we excel.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

What is once well done is done forever.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.