Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

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

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

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

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

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

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I’m glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq’s future is not.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

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

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

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.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.