I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

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.

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.

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

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

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

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

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.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.