The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Aim for the highest.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Without failure there is no achievement.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is natural to want to have a future.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

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.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.