Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.