I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

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.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

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

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Everybody has a purpose.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.