Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund BurkeDo your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
Elbert HubbardIf you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.
Ray BradburyA word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily DickinsonThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice WalkerNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeWithout football, my life is worth nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoI do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily DickinsonA good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGood intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
Joyce MeyerNever be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
J. K. RowlingYou have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.
Jerry SeinfeldThings do not happen. Things are made to happen.
John F. KennedyAction may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William JamesGet busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen KingWhat counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRefuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.
Joyce MeyerIt always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson MandelaBe not simply good – be good for something.
Henry David ThoreauDo your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
Abby Lee MillerWords without thoughts never to heaven go.
William ShakespeareThe barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘
Ludwig van BeethovenDo right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Lou HoltzI’ve actually not read any books on time management.
Elon MuskGod has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel OsteenWhile they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen KellerThere are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.
Michelle ObamaI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel JohnsonI know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.
Greta ThunbergI liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.
Maya AngelouAll achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon HillWhat one has to do usually can be done.
Eleanor RooseveltI read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.
Adam SandlerI exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
PlatoAnything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Wayne DyerUnless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. SeussHe that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeWe always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill GatesOne of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
Maya AngelouI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.
Terry PratchettTo be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
BuddhaLook at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
Will RogersExtreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand RussellYou can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Brian TracySomeone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‚How to Build a Boat.‘
Steven WrightThe tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
Bill GatesThe temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.
Jocko WillinkIf you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.
Matthew McConaugheyThe human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
Theodore RooseveltThe book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Harper LeeAction may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin DisraeliO Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.
Joyce MeyerSome books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNo man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel JohnsonIt is always your next move.
Napoleon HillIf we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.
Joel OsteenGood leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller