To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Never mistake motion for action.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

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

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Opportunity makes a thief.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

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

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

In this digital age, it doesn’t really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

He who is brave is free.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.