While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

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.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.