I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

There is no substitute for victory.

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

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

My life is my message.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

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

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

My fat never made me less money.

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

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.