Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

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

Tonight – to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans – I ask for your support.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I’ve married somebody who I knew for 14 years. So, I’m just living with a friend. All through my ups and downs in football, from winning the I-League to losing the ISL final, she has been a source of great support.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

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.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.