See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I teach children to be winners.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I think I’ve got wiser.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

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

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

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.‘

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

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

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

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

I don’t regret anything.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The people in my songs are all me.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.