Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

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

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Imagination rules the world.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

My mother did not like children.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

I want people to draw strength from me.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.