There is little success where there is little laughter.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

Big results require big ambitions.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

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.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.