I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
Margaret AtwoodIn spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van GoghI don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.
Conor McGregorI’m afraid to fail again.
Jackie ChanWhat by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren BuffettThe presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
Wayne DyerJust as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Leonardo da VinciI think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.
Tom BradyI 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.
John SteinbeckThe last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIf you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.
Robert KiyosakiWe must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul KalamHe that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William JamesAs scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.
Stephen HawkingThere are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles DickensIf a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin PowellCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneDon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark TwainLove is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray BradburyWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George OrwellAt seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren BuffettWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert HooverIf we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.
Joyce MeyerAbility is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou HoltzTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan WattsThe most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia EarhartYears 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.
Anthony HopkinsThe imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar WildeWhere sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin FranklinImagination decides everything.
Blaise PascalThe love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William ShakespeareAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
James MadisonDo 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.
Lao TzuYou must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma GandhiWe should seek the greatest value of our action.
Stephen HawkingI’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.
J. ColeI 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.
George H. W. BushPessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David ThoreauAnything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.
Taylor SwiftWe have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.
Richard BransonWhat is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFew enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel JohnsonHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinLet every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John RuskinIf I can be a leader, I will.
Lady GagaThe companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
Mark ZuckerbergWithout failure there is no achievement.
John C. MaxwellLook within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus AureliusIt is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen KellerThe best way out is always through.
Robert FrostLosing is tough.
George H. W. BushI only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
SocratesMy kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.
Brian EnoExample is leadership.
Albert SchweitzerGetting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.
Jocko WillinkI love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar