Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Critics 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.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I have goals.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

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

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

We were poor, but we smiled.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.