Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

Opportunity makes a thief.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Everybody has a purpose.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

The doer alone learneth.

There is no substitute for victory.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.