Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

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

Be not simply good – be good for something.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

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

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

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

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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.‘

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I often work by avoidance.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.