Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

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

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

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

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.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If you deserve it, go get it.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.