If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

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

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

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

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

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.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

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

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Success has always been a great liar.

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

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.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Passions are the gales of life.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.