One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

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

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

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

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I’m not a natural joiner.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.