The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

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.

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.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Of course awards matter.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Missionaries serve to make life better for God’s children.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

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.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

All great achievements require time.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

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.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

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

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.