However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

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.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

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

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

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

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I can do whatever I want.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Never mistake motion for action.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I’m about being the best.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

My drive is other people’s success.

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.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Commitment is an act, not a word.