Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

No driver is perfect.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.