If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

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.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

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

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Before all else, be armed.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.