I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

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

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Success is the child of audacity.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

There is no substitute for victory.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’m chasing perfection.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.