It’s not ‚can‘; it’s ‚will.‘ You have to will things into fruition.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I can handle pain.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

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

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I still think I am the greatest.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I dwell in possibility.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I’m a can-do girl.