Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou HoltzYou simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.
AuroraI have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.
Matthew McConaugheyBut for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye WestHave you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?
Russell M. NelsonWe cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
Cristiano RonaldoI have had fun being who I became, so to speak.
Madeleine AlbrightWhen I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.
Bad BunnyThe Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.
Lou HoltzHonor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian EnoI’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.
Kanye WestI felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.
Billie EilishIf I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.
Bad BunnyIf I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.
Tom BradyYou don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
Napoleon HillBlessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert CamusTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalI have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper LeeEven though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.
David BowieThe fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina JolieMy music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.
AuroraPeople gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.
Kendrick LamarGod helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnThe fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J. K. RowlingI am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.
Anthony HopkinsWhat you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van BeethovenAs long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.
RihannaIt’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.
Angelina JolieI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesAt the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.
DJ KhaledWe don’t have to let extremists define us.
Kamala HarrisBut ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LeBron JamesIn retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!
David ByrneI will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma GandhiI feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.
Taylor SwiftWhen I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki MurakamiWe are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauThe difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim RohnI haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy GrahamFor a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.
Marilyn MonroeGive a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda MeirUse power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. BushDo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch SpinozaThese are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia WoolfFashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.
Vivienne WestwoodThe older you get, the better you get.
Sunil ChhetriThe reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. TrumanOh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!
Angelina JolieThe bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.
Elon MuskThe major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim RohnAs 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.
Mahatma GandhiIf you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
EpictetusI am happy and I’m single.
RihannaTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan WattsI don’t regret anything.
Amy WinehouseNo 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.
Kevin Hart