Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Always do whatever’s next.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

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

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

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

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

From caring comes courage.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

One man with courage is a majority.

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.

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.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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.‘

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

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.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Americans never quit.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.