I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I got my own back.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

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

Little things affect little minds.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I want the world to see my body.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

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

Think and grow rich.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Fear is real, but so is love.

I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I’m confident with my ability.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.