The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

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

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

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

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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.

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.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

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.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

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.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!