I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I do believe in self-help.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

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.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Money does not change people, people change.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

What I love best in life is new starts.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.