I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

What you are comes to you.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Example is leadership.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I’m filthy rich!

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I will not be triumphed over.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

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.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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

My drive is other people’s success.