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

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

What keeps me going is goals.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

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.

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.