"Nothing comes easy. Nothing is given to you. Whatever you do, you've got to work for it and earn it. Whatever reward you get you've go to know that you've had your input into that success. There's no substitute for hard work. And if you want to be well known or well liked, you have to put yourself out for people."

"If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. If we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward."

"Success is the fruit of failure and hardwork."

"Sometimes when I am alone in my beautiful apartments, brooding over these things and nursing my loneliness, I say to myself: "There are cases when success is a tragedy." There are moments when I regret my whole career, when my very success seems to be a mistake. I think that I was born for a life of intellectual interest. I was certainly brought up for one. The day when that accident turned my mind from college to business seems to be the most unfortunate day in my life. I think that I should be much happier as a scientist or writer, perhaps. I should then be in my natural element, and if I were doomed to loneliness I should have comforts to which I am now a stranger. That's the way I feel every time I pass the abandoned old building of the City College. The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains. Why, then, should I ascribe my triumph to special ability?"

"I didn't think that working hard and wanting something that's out of your control would be that bothersome to people. It was just really disappointing for me."

"Success always demands a greater effort."

"Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown."

"I don't think that success has got anything to do with money — money for me isn't a way of keeping the score, so that's what it isn't."

"The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it can never possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments—success."

"Success is not wholly free from its hypocrisies. Often it comes to us disguised ; often we pursue the shadow of it while the substance is with us. Many have achieved success who deemed their lives failures; many failures have been made by those who regard their lives successful. It is altogether as men measure success; whether in wealth, virtue, fame, fashion, or wickedness. Aspiration leading to effort though attended by seeming failure, is sometimes success, while effortless success may be failure; for one carries with it improvement, development, increase of strength, the other weakness and decay."

"Don't be afraid to ask for help. We all need a hand sometimes, and that's okay.**"

"Success is not about how much you achieve, but about how much you inspire. **"

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success."

"Capitalist-private property relations are the source of class inequalities, which is the primary factor in my being a member of a class that bears all the burdens of society without enjoying its advantages. Under the influence of illegitimate-capitalist values, I was pursuing the alleviation of social-economic hardship through individual advancement. This is a wholly inadequate remedy to social problems because it doesn’t challenge the fundamental injustice of class-exploitation and class-oppression, which are responsible for creating the socio-economic ills in the first place. Unaware of my class interest, I was perpetuating my own oppression by engaging in competitive capitalist practices that ensure the smooth functioning of the system as the exploiting minority profits in more ways than one off the division and disunity engendered by competition, so prevalent amongst the exploited. Look around: competition, euphemistically called “individuality,” permeates and is systematically promoted to the masses of people while the corporate conglomerations and Fortune 500 are busy “merging and monopolizing.”"

"Success is not about being perfect, it's about being persistent **"

"Obedience is the mother of success, and success the parent of salvation."

"Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition... But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."

"Success isn't about being perfect, it's about being brave enough to try, even when you're scared. **"

"Success isn't about the destination, it's about the journey. **"

"Nearest the king, nearest the gallows."

"The Lord is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

"As thy days, so shall thy strength be."

"They go from strength to strength."

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong."

"My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure."

"When , the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength."

"A threefold cord is not quickly broken."

"So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause is ours In conflict with unholy powers, We grasp the weapons he has given,— The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven."

"In that day's feats, * * * * * * He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak."

"What strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world."

"In my experience, real strength is sometimes quieter."

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

"Their strength is to sit still."

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

"Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line."

"The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments."

"And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous."

"To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength."

"Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent."

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic."

"But strong in your good cause. Oh, ye are strong, If ye would know your strength!"

"When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and declaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood."

"Plus potest qui plus valet."

"And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

"I'm not weak — I'm too strong. The bracelets bound my strength to good purposes — Now I'm completely uncontrolled! I'm free to destroy like a man!"

"The strong rules and the weak are their slaves — and no one is stronger than me."

"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

"Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui."

"I believe success holds different meanings for each individual. However, one form of success, in my view, is when an individual can live the life they desire freely, following the path they have chosen. … Don’t let anything hinder you from reaching your goals and dreams."