I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

What is once well done is done forever.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

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.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Learn to think continentally.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

If I can be a leader, I will.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Never find fault with the absent.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.