Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Bring them on.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

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.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

No man was ever wise by chance.

From caring comes courage.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

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.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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

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.‘

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

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

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.