All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe RuthWhy should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest HemingwayYou don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard BransonWhy don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
Joel OsteenTo do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.
Greta ThunbergTrust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAct as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William JamesWhat we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
Lou HoltzWe must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David ThoreauAn important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.
Richard BransonBeautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher HitchensNever be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
J. K. RowlingPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillEven as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.
Nipsey HusslePractice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
EpictetusWalk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John RuskinYou can be passionate about anything.
Jerry SeinfeldIf you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIf I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.
Clint EastwoodSuccess is the child of audacity.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.
Taylor SwiftI believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. RockefellerI wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.
Conor McGregorAlthough prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston ChurchillI like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.
Clint EastwoodAnyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.
Jurgen KloppWhen defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon HillIf you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
Henry FordWhen I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘
Frank OceanWe don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.
George W. BushI fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles SpurgeonIf you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
Mr. TSince it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo MachiavelliCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneI am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
Theodore RooseveltThere are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. RooseveltYou’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.
Dolly PartonPeople will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.
DJ KhaledI have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.
Walt DisneyThe reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.
Lady GagaOnly a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad AliThe important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe BryantA #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce MeyerI do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
Noam ChomskyMy friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.
Cristiano RonaldoThe important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai LamaAnything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles DickensA good name is rather to be chosen than riches.
King SolomonYou know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.
Bill GatesMost great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon HillAs soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.
Taylor SwiftWhen I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle ObamaOne must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van GoghIf we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.
Stephen CoveyI just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
Clint EastwoodWhen 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.
Joyce MeyerTo be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaAt times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert SchweitzerWant of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill