Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

You fail only if you stop writing.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

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

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

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

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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Without failure there is no achievement.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

My drive is other people’s success.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

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

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

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