He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

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

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I believe in singing.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

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

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Football is all about fans.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I give opinions, not advice.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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 think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.