It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

They used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

No pressure, no diamonds.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Aim for the highest.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

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

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.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

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

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I teach children to be winners.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

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.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Act, and God will act.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.