Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

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

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

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.

God always has patience.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

America is another name for opportunity.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

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

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I think that I’m perfect.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.