It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Small aim is a crime.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

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.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

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.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

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.‘

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.