Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

One man with courage is a majority.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

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.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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?

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

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.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That’s my mission.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

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.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

The best way out is always through.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.