I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

A man’s own manner and character is what most becomes him.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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