Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Women don’t try to use me.

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

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

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

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I can do whatever I want.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Act, and God will act.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

God helps those who help themselves.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

What one has to do usually can be done.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

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

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.