Nothing will work unless you do.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

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

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

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I’m a can-do girl.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I’m filthy rich!

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.