Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I will not be triumphed over.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.