Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.