That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

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

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

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

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

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

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.