So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

By indignities men come to dignities.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I always make my dreams into goals.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

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.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.