I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

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

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Hope is a waking dream.

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

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

Success is not a stop sign.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.