Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Action expresses priorities.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I’m about being the best.

Our work is never over.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

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.

If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Aim for the highest.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.