Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

The only shame is to have none.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

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

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

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.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

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

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I’m not a bad person.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.