I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

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.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

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

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Applause waits on success.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Never confuse motion with action.