A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

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

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.