Applause waits on success.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

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

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.