To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

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

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Competition is a sin.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I do believe in self-help.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Solutions are not the answer.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.