If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
One thing is forever good; That one thing is Success.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
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