I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

I was raised to be independent.

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.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

You are victors, not victims!

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

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

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Aim for the highest.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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