To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

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

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

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

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

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

I will not be triumphed over.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

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

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

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.