You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

I came up from a difficult background.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

I’m afraid to fail again.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.