When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

My life is my message.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

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

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

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.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

It is natural to want to have a future.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Be not a slave of words.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

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

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Big results require big ambitions.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.