You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

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.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

What one has to do usually can be done.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

To lead people walk behind them.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents – electric wave motion – will have the sway.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.