Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

If you deserve it, go get it.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

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

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.