You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

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

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

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

I can do whatever I want.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

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.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

Everybody has a purpose.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.