I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

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

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

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 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.

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

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Humble people ask for help.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

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.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

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.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.