Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

God’s desire is that we excel.

What is once well done is done forever.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

No pressure, no diamonds.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Men want to make women happy.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Energy begets energy.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

Do 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.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.