A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

We boil at different degrees.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.