It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

I’m a can-do girl.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Competition is a sin.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Music is really driving my whole life.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I am a grafter.

To create something you must be something.

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.

Pessimism never won any battle.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

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

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.