Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

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

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

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

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

Never regret what you don’t write.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

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

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The best way out is always through.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

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

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.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.