I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.
Abby Lee MillerA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis BaconI don’t think I am evangelical in my work.
J. K. RowlingI believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
Eleanor RooseveltPerfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
Joyce MeyerNo matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William JamesThe way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
Frank OceanDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonThe world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest HemingwayA man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl JungFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltMost of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous HuxleyIf you’ve got a talent, protect it.
Jim CarreyI didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.
Taylor SwiftI never say I am a guru.
Paulo CoelhoIndeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Joel OsteenIt’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BonoI do believe in self-help.
Clint EastwoodI was in a terrible mess in my childhood.
Joyce MeyerWhat starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Richard M. NixonIf you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret ThatcherWhatever you are, be a good one.
William Makepeace ThackerayNothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark TwainThere are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.
Lando NorrisThe most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe BryantWhen one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich NietzscheThe wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
Russell M. NelsonI’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.
Dwayne JohnsonIn our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl SaganThe more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will RogersI don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.
Frank OceanAmbition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.
Robert GreeneI’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
Gordon RamsayVery little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus AureliusTo love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Samuel JohnsonI never expected to be anybody important.
Elvis PresleyI hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.
Abby Lee MillerThe average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew CarnegieThe nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint EastwoodReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeMy great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham LincolnAlmost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel JohnsonThe Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.
Colin PowellWe choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.
John C. MaxwellO wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Marcus Tullius CiceroStrength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon HillIt’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.
Clint EastwoodMeditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
Alice WalkerThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest HemingwayGet busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen KingBefore we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinThe greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. KennedyI don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Wayne DyerI’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
Maya AngelouI have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.
Kevin GatesIt’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.
Jordan PetersonIt’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Joel OsteenI can handle pain.
Adam Sandler