We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

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

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.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Affluence means influence.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

He who is contented is rich.

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

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

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

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

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

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

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

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.