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

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

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.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.