What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Single life is so overrated.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.