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

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

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

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.