The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

From caring comes courage.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career – which is very short.

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 can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

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

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

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

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.