Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

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

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Music is really driving my whole life.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

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

I have goals.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Success is the child of audacity.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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