Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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.

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.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

Trust, but verify.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Little things affect little minds.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

One must steer, not talk.

Power is competence.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

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.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.