I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

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.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.