We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Being humble matters.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

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

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

‚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.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.