I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

The best way out is always through.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.