Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

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

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

God’s desire is that we excel.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

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

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.