My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

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

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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.

If you deserve it, go get it.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

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

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

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

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

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

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

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

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

I am results-oriented.

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

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

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

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

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

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.