Storms make trees take deeper roots.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Where there is love there is life.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

Only you can control your future.

Bring them on.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.