Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

I think we need more idiot control.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.