Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

This lady is not for turning.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

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.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

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