You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can’t stop marching. Even when they’re turning the hoses on you, you can’t stop.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.