Success has always been a great liar.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I have goals.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

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

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.