Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

You can be passionate about anything.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Be proud to be Latino and never lose that pride!

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

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.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Life well spent is long.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I give opinions, not advice.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.