Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

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

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Act, and God will act.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

I never dreamt, in my dream, I’m Dalai Lama.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

I’m chasing perfection.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Winning, to me, is easy. Winning more is the challenge.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.