‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

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.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

They say miracles are past.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.