The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.
Joyce MeyerI don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘
Jordan PetersonWhen I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
Taylor SwiftI’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Kanye WestI 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.
Kevin HartAs I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEven if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIf all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.
Jocko WillinkAt the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.
DJ KhaledYou gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
DJ KhaledI’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.
J. ColeStart wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore RooseveltYou 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.
Alexander the GreatSuch as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus AureliusI find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai LamaSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise PascalAn inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPlayers now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.
George BestThere is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat HanhGod wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.
Joel OsteenTheoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.
Stephen HawkingSo many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel JohnsonThe men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
Andrew CarnegieI’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.
John WayneChaos is a friend of mine.
Bob DylanI know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.
Jeff BezosAnything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
J. K. RowlingI love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
Maya AngelouWe all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
Dale CarnegieThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthurFinite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopeLet each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas CarlyleVirtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.
Lou HoltzWhatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian TracyThings do not change; we change.
Henry David ThoreauA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas CarlyleWhen it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.
DJ KhaledThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillThe best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George EliotIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerTake time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon BonaparteIt’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.
Dwayne JohnsonYou don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWe must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul KalamThe world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon HillI have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
Billy GrahamNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott FitzgeraldWhatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
Andrew CarnegieMost of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale CarnegieHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William JamesI always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
EminemNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
Booker T. WashingtonProvidence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma GandhiI’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.
Lando NorrisCritics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.
Robert KiyosakiI’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.
Clint EastwoodSometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.
Nipsey HussleYou know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.
LeBron James