I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

There is no education like adversity.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

If you ask people what they’ve always wanted to do, most people haven’t done it. That breaks my heart.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.