Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Effective action is always unjust.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

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.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

One must steer, not talk.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

You can be passionate about anything.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.