Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I still think I am the greatest.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Only the insecure strive for security.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I think that success is having fun.