Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

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

And winning is a huge thing for me.

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

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

Good luck has its storms.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

No man was ever wise by chance.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

An unused life is an early death.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.