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

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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

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.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

People want you to fail.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Without failure there is no achievement.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

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.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

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

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

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.

Dream and you shall become.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.