Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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.

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

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

You can be passionate about anything.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

One man with courage is a majority.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

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

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

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