Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I’m filthy rich!

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

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

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

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.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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.

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

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

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

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Often, in the real world, it’s not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.