I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

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.

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

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

What keeps me going is goals.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

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.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Competition is a sin.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

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.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

My life has been very full.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.