And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

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.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

The older you get, the better you get.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

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

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

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

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

The 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.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.