If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

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

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

I’m afraid to fail again.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

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.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.