Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

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.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.