One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I’m a can-do girl.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Americans never quit.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

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

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.