Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Hope is a waking dream.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

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 want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

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

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.