If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

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

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

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

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

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

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.