To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Be the chief but never the lord.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.