To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

God’s desire is that we excel.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

I have goals.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Fight with a happy heart.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

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

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

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

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Exercise is labor without weariness.