Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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.