Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

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

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

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.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

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

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.