Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

I have goals.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

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

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Faith Hill is a big role model.

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.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

People want to feel hopeful.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

The American people have not become heartless.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.