Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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

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.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Few people realize that luck is created.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

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

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

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

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

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