It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Fear is exciting for me.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Being humble matters.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

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.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

I don’t regret anything.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Never find fault with the absent.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

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

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.