Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

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.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

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

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.