Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

My life has been very full.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I came up from a difficult background.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

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

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.