If you deserve it, go get it.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I can do whatever I want.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

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

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Well done is better than well said.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.