I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

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.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

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.

I have wasted my hours.

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.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

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.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.