The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Everything is my demon muse. I have a muse which whispers in my ear and says, ‚Do this, do that,‘ but it’s my demon who provokes me.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

Choose people who lift you up.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Action expresses priorities.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

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

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.