The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.

Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Success is not what you have, but who you are.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

What is not started will never get finished

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

I have two dogs, Lottie and Charlie.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

I left school at 15 feeling fairly useless and not really up to scratch in my education. And I still suffer sometimes from that lack of education.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

Friends and family matter most during hard times.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Ive learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those you have nothing so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.