I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

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.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

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

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

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

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.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

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.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

I’m a can-do girl.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.