People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

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 you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

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.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Puerto Rico’s relationship with music is everything. It’s an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Success has always been a great liar.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Let the path be open to talent.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.