Bring them on.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

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

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

People want to feel hopeful.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.