Desire is the essence of a man.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Example is leadership.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

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

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

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

Never confuse motion with action.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.