There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

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

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Without failure there is no achievement.

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.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

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

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

Applause waits on success.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

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

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

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

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

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.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?