For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I think I have always had a little humor.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I don’t do research. I never have.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.