It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

What is once well done is done forever.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

It is always your next move.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Without failure there is no achievement.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

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.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!