A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

An unused life is an early death.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I teach children to be winners.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

The future will be better tomorrow.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

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.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

You can be happy where you are.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.