There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Choose people who lift you up.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

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

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

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.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Applause waits on success.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

I 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.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.