Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

We are what we believe we are.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My life is real.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

God’s desire is that we excel.

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.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

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

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

What you are comes to you.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Music is really driving my whole life.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.