To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

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.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

No great thing is created suddenly.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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.

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

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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.

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.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

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.

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.

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

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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