I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I’m tender on the inside.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

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.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

We boil at different degrees.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I don’t have all the answers.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Be not a slave of words.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Power is competence.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I focus on my own job.

Little things affect little minds.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I am happy and I’m single.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.