Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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.

I will not be triumphed over.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

This lady is not for turning.