When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

Energy begets energy.

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.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Delay is preferable to error.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

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

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

There is nothing so stable as change.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Hope is a waking dream.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.