By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Life loves the liver of it.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

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.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I always have to be writing.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

As 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.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.