One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I want people to draw strength from me.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I’m a can-do girl.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I dwell in possibility.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Never confuse motion with action.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

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.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.