The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Never mistake motion for action.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

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

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

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.

I am results-oriented.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I don’t do meetings.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.