Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

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

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Libraries raised me.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

You fail only if you stop writing.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

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