Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

Competition is a sin.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I absolutely adore Christmas.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

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

Choose people who lift you up.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

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.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.