Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

It is always your next move.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

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.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.