Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

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.

We work to become, not to acquire.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

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.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

In 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.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.