To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

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

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

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

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

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.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

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

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

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

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

A BMW can’t take you as far as a diploma.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I focus on my own job.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.