Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

My life is real.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

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

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I defy gravity.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I have wasted my hours.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

There is spontaneity to my work.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

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.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.