People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

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

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Bad men are full of repentance.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I’m chasing perfection.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Forget the past.

Giving up cannot be an option.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I’m not a bad person.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

It is always your next move.