So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Fight with a happy heart.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.