Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Man is not made for defeat.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

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.‘

What one has to do usually can be done.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Everybody has a purpose.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.