Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

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

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Well begun is half done.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

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

Nothing endures but change.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

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

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

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

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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.

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.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

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.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

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

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.