I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

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 think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

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.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

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!

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

If I can be a leader, I will.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

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

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

See, winners embrace hard work.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

People want to feel hopeful.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.