Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

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.

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

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

God always wants us to be growing.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

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

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

I teach children to be winners.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Humble people ask for help.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Only you can control your future.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Power is competence.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

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.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.