Either you run the day or the day runs you.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Learn to think continentally.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Forget the past.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Find people who will make you better.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Well begun is half done.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

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.

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.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.