It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

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.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

Energy begets energy.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

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.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

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

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.