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

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

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

I’m committed to the fight game.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

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

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

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.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

God helps those who help themselves.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

What is once well done is done forever.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

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

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.