If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Never complain. Never explain.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.