Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Things do not change; we change.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

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

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

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

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.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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