Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

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.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

Americans never quit.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

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 sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I think that I’m perfect.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Success has always been a great liar.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

My life is my message.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.