You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

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

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Bad men are full of repentance.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

I’m much healthier now.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.